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Despite the rise of celebrity culture, photojournalists still have a story to tell

The photographer Stanley Greene was working in Fallujah, Iraq, when he came across two charred bodies abandoned on the street. His first instinct was to lift his camera and begin to shoot. He later discovered that they were the bodies of two American contractors, who had been murdered and burnt beyond recognition. Greene, a photographer with the Vu agency and a veteran of many harrowing scenes of death and destruction during his years spent in Chechnya, continued to work, keeping his emotions in check and continuing to record the bodies, the crowds and the scene. But that night — March